On my last three sailing trips I was island hoping, firstly in the Cannaries on the Morgenster then off the west coast of Scotland on the Irene and the Chimere. I wanted to experience a longer open ocean voyage to see if I was cut out for such trips and whether or not I’d enjoy …
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Having now sailed in the square rigger Morgenster and completed my RYA competent crew training I was on the lookout for another voyage when I spotted a trip on classic sailing on a smaller ship, the ketch Irene. The ship was planning a voyage from Oban around the small Isles and Skye, a part of …
After getting the sailing bug during my first voyage on the Morgenster I was keen to learn a bit more about sailing so I enrolled on a RYA competent crew training course being run by BritSail out of Kip Marina. This proved to a memorable trip, but for very different reasons from the Morgenster. We …
Towards the end of 2016 I was reading Facebook posts from a friend who was sailing on the Bark Europa tall ship heading for Antarctica. I was not only amazed at the voyage she was on but also intrigued as to how one gets on board these tall ships, so I followed the link she …
This is based on a tutorial from the University of Southampton (YouTube) To enable eduroam Open a terminal and type; sudo leafpad /etc/network/interfaces This will open the interfaces file in leafpad, edit this file to look something like below where we have set wlan0 to use wpa_supplicant # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) …
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This is based on my experience with a Raspberry pi 3 running Raspbian Jessie. Setup SSH In Raspbian Jessie ssh may already be enabled by default but if not open a terminal and type sudo raspi-config select 7 Advanced Options select A4 SSH You’ll be asked if you want enable SSH Select Yes. To …
Update: Google Play is now available in the UK. Here’s how to use it in Ubuntu. And here’s a guide to tweaking the desktop app Nuvola. Google Play, formerly Google Music is only available in the US at the moment presumably for licencing reasons. But it is possible to get it outside the US in a variety …
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I’ve bought downloaded MP3s from Amazon on many occasions but was always annoyed to have to use their downloader so I was interested to find an open source alternative called Clamz in the Ubuntu 10.10 repositories. First install Clamz through Synaptic or sudo apt-get install Clamz if you prefer in a terminal. Next, buy your MP3s …
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I, like many people have the basic free version of Dropbox which provides a very useful 2Gb of cloud storage but with a few clicks you can increase this to 2.7Gb. Read the Lifehacker posts here and here. Recently the Dropbox team launched a scavenger hunt offering up to an additional 1Gb storage for free …
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I’m thoroughly hacked off by the inconsiderate and down right dangerous standard of driving in this country. I counted ten near misses on my bike in the last two days. Two out of three drivers seem to think passing a cyclist at 50/60 mph within 2 feet is OK and that overtaking on a blind …